Staging A Home 101!

Posted by Admirals Cove Homes on Feb 6, 2014 in Home, Real Estate | 0 comments

Staging a home is a very important tool when comes to getting it ready for the market and can greatly affect the success of the sale of your home. The goal of staging is to highlight your homes strengths and downplay its weaknesses to make your home feel more inviting and comfortable and increase its appeal to potential buyers. We have developed a list of the top tips on staging to help you through the process and ensure that your home staging experience is a complete success.

1.)   Lighting Is Key: Lighting plays an extremely vital role when it comes to setting the mood of your home but is often over looked when it comes to home staging. Dark hallways and living areas are not inviting and can greatly affect the way potential buyers feel about your home. However you don’t need to go renovating your home when a few strategically placed lamps and mirrors can really help brighten up any area.

2.)   Clean Clean Clean: Most people think that they have been a good home keeper and so there home can’t be that dirty. But the thing is when you live in a place for a period of time you start to get used to the way it looks and dirt can go unnoticed. It is very important that you do a deep and thorough cleaning throughout your entire home and this means behind sinks, toilets, fridges, ovens, and everywhere else there might be some dirt.

3.)   Don’t Underestimate The Little Details: The little details can really help set the mood and increase the appeal of your home. Adding things like fresh towels and decorative soaps to your bathrooms, a bowl full of fresh fruit in the kitchen, magazines on coffee tables, and vases full of fresh flowers throughout your home will set a very comfortable and inviting atmosphere that will be very appealing to potential buyers.

4.)   De-Personalize The Entire Home: It is very important that you completely depersonalize your home so potential buyers can envision themselves living in it as their home. This is more than just removing your photos and personal affects you should also remove any personal, political, and religious items that may make your home unappealing to a certain group of people. You never want anything in your home that could risk loosing you a potential sale.

5.)   Make Necessary Repairs: It is very important that you make all necessary repairs so that your home is at its optimum appeal. Dripping faucets or cracks in the tile send the wrong message to potential buyers and can greatly damage the success of your home sale. Be sure that you make all necessary repairs so that potential buyers can see the real beauty in your home and not get distracted by things that need to get fixed.